Example sentences of "carry [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged !
2 She 'd been scooped ignominiously into her rescuer 's arms and carried with ease to the quayside .
3 Collapsible pushchairs and wheelchairs can be carried in addition to the allowance .
4 The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars .
5 I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics .
6 Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives .
7 Beneath them is a freshly lettered gravestone being carried from Sedbergh to Hawes :
8 In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed .
9 Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there .
10 At present the timber felled in this district is carried by road to Montgomery Station , for despatch by railway .
11 Dissolved material may subsequently be reprecipitated or be reincorporated into other minerals , but the great proportion is carried by rivers to the ocean .
12 The heated air passed under the mosaic floor and was carried by flues to the walls .
13 That evening Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke set down his thoughts in brief notes on raiding parties carried by ship to the French coast and drawn from a special force .
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